FORO DE
INTERNACIONALIZACIÓN
DA DANZA
8 JULY
AMES
9 JULY
OUTES
8 july
ames
í TAPIA BEACH
12:30 h | RECEPTION AND WELCOME COFFEE
In case of rain: Bertamiráns Cultural Centre
13:00h | SHOWCASES
Laboratorio Escénico
Laboratorio Escénico
Laboratorio Escénico
Laboratorio Escénico
MONTE - VERSIÓN EXTENDIDA (EXTRACT)
SHOWCASE FORO
Laboratorio Escénico | Galicia
Duration: 10’
Directed and choreographed by: Maura Morales (adapted by Alba Fernández and Ana Beatriz Pérez)
Performed by: Ana Beatriz Pérez, Alba Fernández and Alicia López
Synopsis
MONTE – Extended Version is a dance piece accompanied by live music, inspired by stories of women and borders, with the body as their sole companion. Women who leave familiar lands behind and learn to inhabit new ones, transforming themselves in the transition between cultures. The mountain becomes a symbolic space where memory, spirituality and tradition intertwine, revealing a territory shared between the visible and the hidden. Through movement, the body functions as a living archive of a hybrid identity that is constantly reinventing itself. ABANEA presents an excerpt from this production, performed by the piece’s three dancers.
Company profile
Laboratorio Escénico is a Galician performing arts company founded in 2019 under the direction of Alba Fernández, Alicia López and Carmen Cotelo. Their work is characterised by the creation of productions that combine dance, theatre and music to address social issues through a contemporary and multidisciplinary language. It currently has seven productions on tour and is also actively involved in training, creation and research through Laboratorio Escénico Coop, the company’s headquarters in A Coruña. For MONTE – Extended Version, they have enlisted the artistic direction and choreography of Maura Morales, a Cuban choreographer based in Germany, who brings an international perspective and in-depth research into the body and movement.
Martín Blanco
Martín Blanco
MAIS
ENREDE ABANEA SUPPORT
Martín Blanco | Galicia
Duration: 11’
Choreography and direction: Martín Blanco and Carlota Rosón Rojo
Performer: Martín Blanco
Synopsis
Mais is a piece of dance, acrobatics and clowning for a single performer. The work explores two parallel realities: that of the present and that of daydreaming – that imaginary space we turn to when we long for what we do not have. Amidst desires, expectations and projections, the protagonist moves between reality and fantasy in search of a different version of himself.
Company profile
SÖA is a Galician performing arts project created by Martín Blanco, Marta Velázquez and Carlota Rosón Rojo, which combines music, dance and theatre in a language all of its own. The collective has taken part in festivals and artistic residencies in Galicia, Catalonia, Madrid and Portugal, developing their work in venues such as the Casa del Teatre Nu, the headquarters of the National Dance Company and the Atopémonos Bailando residency programme. With the show Coa cabeza nas nubes, they were part of the Da Man programme and the LAC Residencies at the National Drama Centre. In 2026, they received the Best Show Award at the Imaginarius festival (Portugal).
íPAZO DA PEREGRINA | BERTAMIRÁNS
16:00 – 16:30h | RECEPTION
16:30 – 18:00h | PANEL: THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE: FROM SPAIN TO EUROPE.
Participants:
Athanas Maev · Moving Balkans
Fernando López Rodríguez · Dance From Spain / FECED
Belisa Braças · Instável Centro Coreográfico (Porto)
Moderator: Paula Quintas · IS·MO Cultura.
18:00 - 18:30h | COFFEE BREAK
18:45 – 19:45h | NETWORKING: A SPACE FOR GALICIAN COMPANIES AND PROJECTS TO SHOWCASE THEMSELVES.
9 july
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13:00h | SHOWCASE
Corpo Liminal
Corpo Liminal
SOLASTALGIA
SHOWCASE FORO
Corpo Liminal | Galicia - Madrid
Duration: 20’
Choreography and performance: Ana Erdozain and Alba González
Synopsis
Solastalgia is a contemporary dance duet that invites reflection on adaptation, memory and identity in the context of environmental crisis. Through a journey through altered landscapes, the dancers move between resistance and resignation, questioning our ability to continue inhabiting a world we no longer recognise. How can we carry on when the world we remember has disappeared?
Company profile
Corpo Liminal is a contemporary dance project created by Ana Erdozain and Alba González, born out of a desire to build a space for shared artistic research from a multidisciplinary perspective. Their creations integrate movement, sound, text, costume and audiovisual elements as active components of the dramaturgy. Since 2016, they have been developing an ongoing body of work presented in theatres, independent venues and national festivals. Notable among their pieces are Las Doradas, Centro de Giro and Solastalgia, which premiered at the Ellas Crean Festival in Madrid in 2025 and was subsequently presented at various national festivals.
14:00h | SHOWCASE
VACAburra
VACAburra
VACAburra
VACAburra
DANZALISMOS
SHOWCASE FORO
VACAburra | Galicia
Duration: 15’
Created, directed and performed by: VACAburra (Andrea Quintana and Gena Baamonde)
Synopsis
DANZALISMOS is a performative stage lecture in which Andrea Quintana and Gena Baamonde share the creative world of VACAburra through humour, action and the moving body. Through a hybrid approach combining spoken word, performance and contemporary dance, the piece explores the company’s main areas of research: diversity, dissidence, the rediscovery of forgotten women’s genealogies, and the expressive possibilities of the body as a political and poetic space. An invitation to engage with their imagination through an accessible, playful and deeply contemporary format.
Company profile
VACAburra is a contemporary creative platform founded in Galicia in 2019 by Andrea Quintana and Gena Baamonde. Their work is characterised by the blending of performing arts languages, feminism, sexual and gender diversity, humour and theoretical-practical research, positioning the body as the primary driving force behind creation. Throughout their career, they have developed pieces such as O raro é que bailar sexo raro, Metodoloxías Carroñeras para Corpos Invertidos, Familia Nijinska and Festina Lente – works that challenge hegemonic narratives and explore the intersections between dance, critical thinking and contemporary creation, transforming movement and vandalism into methodological tools for imagining alternative ways of being in the world.
16:00 - 16:30h | RECEPTION
16:30 - 18:00h | PANEL: GALICIAN DANCE FROM AN OUTSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE.
Participants:
Lorena Benot · Cádiz en Danza
Jimena Rodríguez · Danza Xixón
Mercedes L. Caballero
Moderator: Marta Alonso · IS·MO Cultura
18:00 - 18:30h | COFFEE BREAK
18:30 - 20:00h | PANEL: HOW TO STRENGTHEN THE PRESENCE OF GALICIAN DANCE IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS.
Participants:
Pilar Portela · AGADIC
Natividad Buil · Festival Trayectos / Red Acieloabierto
Fernando López Rodríguez · Dance From Spain / FECED
Modera: Fran Sieira · Escena Galega
